Fine-dining Italian is dominated by northern fare. Can Bellino make the south rise again?

Food Reviews & Stories
In the first century of Italian-American cuisine, nothing north of Naples mattered. The vast majority of the Italian immigrants who migrated to this country in the late 1800s and early 1900s came from
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Bar Reviews
BACK IN BLUE: Kurt Huffman’s 99-Oregon-tap beer hall had quite an opening week. Loyal Legion (705 SE 6th Ave, 235-8272, loyallegionpdx.com) had a line down the block when it first cracked the doors
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The young Renata has some nice moves and fantastic pasta. But there’s work to do.

Food Reviews & Stories
Lunch plans had to be canceled—Nick Arnerich knew that right away.
When Arnerich’s new, wood-fired Italian restaurant, Renata, was chosen as The Oregonian’s favorite new spot in its annual res
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Bar Reviews
THE WINDOW SHUTS: The inner eastside sure is fancy these days. No longer do visitors want to stay in a humble Red Lion (actual marketing slogan: “Affordable Hotels”) and drink at a faux-upscale ba
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Drank
Call it blasphemy, but I’m not a big fan of “American hefeweizen.” To me, the best part of a traditional German hefe is the interplay of esters like isoamyl acetate and the protein-dense, sweet
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An afternoon with a bunch of hippies in the woods

It's true what they say: You really do need to go to the Oregon Country Fair sometime.Not for a whole weekend of camping—one afternoon should be plenty—and not for the music, which is sort of a sideshow to this carnival of craft and hippie food in the woods outside Eugene.The Fair wrapped up its 46th year yesterday with record attendance...
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What we can learn from the Weed the People “shitshow.”

Potlander
It took only three days of legalization for people to get pissy about legal weed in Oregon.
And, no, it wasn’t the rednecks.
On July 3, some 1,500 people showed up at Portland’s first totally p
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Four loose-leaf vapes reviewed.

Weed
You should buy a loose-leaf vaporizer. Maybe one of the four we review here, maybe something else. But you should experience the delights of these little electronic gadgets, which gently bake the into
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